The New Yorker Hits the Road

The day the mailman delivers my copy of The New Yorker is always a happy day—yes, I’m one of those bores who reads every issue from cover to cover. But I’m particularly excited about next week’s “Journeys” issue, which features an impressive lineup of literary firepower.

Short pieces by Jonathan Franzen and Jane Smiley have already been posted online, as have an online-only photo essay by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado (narrated by writer Ian Parker) and Tad Friend’s tag-along-in-Oman profile of Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler. I’ve read the latter already. It’s a terrific look at the current state of the guidebook giant and the psychology of its founders. As for the rest of the issue, I’m itching for the mailman to deliver it.

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